Mount Holly Cemetery - Little Rock, AR - Arkansas' own Westminister Abby

Mount Holly Cemetery found in Little Rock, Arkansas is also known as the Westminister Abbey of Arkansas. The name is justified by the large number of individuals buried there that have shown significance in the areas of art, literature, religion and politics. The cemetery is the final resting place of four U.S. senators, thirteen state Supreme Court Justices, four generals of the Confederacy and twenty-one mayors of Little Rock.

Two of the area's leading citizens deeded the land for the cemetery on the 23rd of February in 1843. The cemetery is twenty acres that takes up four square blocks from Gaines to Broadway streets and is between 11th and 13th streets. There are several grave markers that were put up before the founding of the Mount Holly Cemetery because there was another burial ground on the site prior to the formation of the cemetery.

There were six hundred and forty Confederate soldiers relocated from the cemetery to the Oakland Cemetery during 1884. The Mount Holly Cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places on the 5th of March, 1970 making it one of the first cemeteries to be added.

A visit to the Mount Holly Cemetery should be made if you are ever in the Little Rock, Arkansas area. The historical significance of the facilities should not be underestimated.